Howto connect to stumpwm REPL (swank) about vlime

[l04m33]

Is it possible to add some documention about connecting to an existing lisp process?

Sure, good idea. Maybe I should elaborate on the protocol too.

[l04m33]

Vlime has it's own protocol, and can't talk to Swank directly. You'll have to include the Vlime server in your StumpWM image.

I have this little patch for my own StumpWM installation (you may need to adapt it to your environment):

diff --git a/load-stumpwm.lisp.in b/load-stumpwm.lisp.in
index a7b228a..463f58e 100644
--- a/load-stumpwm.lisp.in
+++ b/load-stumpwm.lisp.in
@@ -5,6 +5,16 @@
 
 (require 'asdf)
 
+(ql:quickload '(:xembed
+                :clx-truetype
+                :swank
+                :vlime
+                :vlime-usocket))
+
 (asdf:initialize-source-registry
  '(:source-registry
    (:directory "@STUMPWM_ASDF_DIR@")

Make a symlink to <vlime repo>/lisp/ in your <quicklisp>/local-projects/ directory, and compile StumpWM. Once StumpWM is set up successfully, evaluate (vlime:main :port 7002 :backend :vlime-usocket) in it to start the server. Then you can call vlime#plugin#ConnectREPL("127.0.0.1", 7002) to connect.

P.S. Thank you for trying it out. Hope you enjoyed it :)

[duikboot]

Thank you very much for your quick reply, it's very helpful. Is it possible to add some documention about connecting to an existing lisp process?